Since you mentioned Sprint, I will say that we sent a request to ARIN to get Vab off our records over a month ago. They have promised me that this will be in effect tomorrow. Perhaps the new modification template Kim announced will help. One thing that would also be cool would be a way to search on a particular ARIN-handle to find out if someone who left your company is listed on any of your records. Unfortunately, with spammers using whois the way they do, this would probably be too easy to abuse. Sarah
We already have a central authority that collects two perfectly good points of information about each AS in North America (supposedly.)
Yeah, right.
Dear Sprint, Vab is gone. Since you have not updated your contact information in a prompt fashion, your AS numbers will be withdrawn at Midnight. Have a nice day.
As far as most provider's are concerned there is no penalty for having out of date or bogus contact information. They view it as just one more added cost, and something that only benefits their competitors and not themselves. That is until they read about themselves on the front-page of the New York Times. Then the managers start yelling at the engineers "Why didn't you tell us it was a problem."